“Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, and a lawful permanent resident of Bangladesh…”
Why was here at all? Why did vetting procedures, if any, fail? What is being done to make sure this doesn’t happen again? Why, nothing, of course. Just the opposite.
“Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for ISIS-inspired Bombing in New York City Subway Station in 2017,” Department of Justice, April 22, 2021:
WASHINGTON – A New York man was sentenced today to life in prison for detonating a bomb in a New York City subway station. He admitted that he conducted the terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, and a lawful permanent resident of Bangladesh, was convicted by a federal jury of offenses related to the detonation and attempted detonation of a bomb in a subway station near the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City on Dec. 11, 2017. According to court documents, on Dec. 11, 2017, at approximately 7:20 a.m., Ullah detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his chest in a subway station near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan. Shortly after the blast, first responders located Ullah lying on the ground in the station where he had detonated the improvised explosive device, and he was taken into custody. Surveillance footage captured Ullah walking through the station immediately prior to the explosion and then detonating the bomb.
“Ullah constructed a pipe bomb and detonated it in a mass transit hub in the heart of New York City to harm and terrorize as many people as possible – and he admitted that he did it on behalf of ISIS,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “This case reminds us that the threat of ISIS-inspired terrorism remains real. This sentence holds Ullah accountable, as he will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for his crimes. I want to thank all of the agents, analysts, and prosecutors whose outstanding work made this result possible.”
“Akayed Ullah, previously convicted in a New York federal court of carrying out a lone-wolf bombing attack on behalf of ISIS at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a bustling transit artery in New York City, admittedly intended to murder as many innocent Americans as possible,” said U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. “Ullah’s motive was clear and unambiguous: a deeply held ideological hatred for America. Ironically, Ullah’s actions resulted only in reaffirming the greatness of America by displaying the fairness and impartiality for which our justice system stands. Ullah received a speedy, fair, public trial, and was convicted by a jury of his peers. Akayed Ullah’s message of hatred clearly backfired; his just sentence of life in prison only exemplifies that cowardly acts of terrorism will be met with law enforcement’s unwavering resolve to protect our core values of freedom and democracy.”
“The defendant sought to attack innocent Americans who were going about their daily lives,” said Acting Assistant Director Patrick Reddan for Counterterrorism at the FBI. “He will now spend the rest of his life in prison, where he will not be in a position to attempt another attack. While the terrorism threat continues to evolve in this country, groups like ISIS remain committed to attacking America, and the FBI will continue to work with our JTTF partners across the country in our commitment to track down and disrupt terrorists who seek to harm our homeland.”
According to court documents and the evidence presented at trial, Ullah began radicalizing in approximately 2014. Ullah disagreed with U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and began seeking out online materials promoting radical Islamic terrorist ideology. In particular, Ullah was inspired by ISIS propaganda, including a video in which ISIS instructed supporters to carry out attacks in their homelands if they were unable to travel overseas to join ISIS. Ullah began researching how to build a bomb about a year prior to his attack. He built his pipe bomb in the weeks leading up to the attack at his Brooklyn apartment.
Following the attack on Dec. 11, 2017, law enforcement located remnants of the pipe bomb on Ullah’s person and strewn across the attack site in the subway station. Law enforcement found, among other things: (i) a nine-volt battery inside Ullah’s pants pocket, which he used as the power source for triggering the bomb; (ii) wires connected to the battery and running underneath Ullah’s jacket; (iii) plastic zip ties underneath Ullah’s jacket, which he used to strap the bomb to his body; (iv) several fragments of a metal pipe, which Ullah had filled with an explosive substance that he made using sugar and match heads; (v) fragments of Christmas tree lightbulbs attached to wires, which Ullah used to ignite the explosion; and (vi) numerous metal screws. Ullah filled his pipe bomb with dozens of metal screws to function as shrapnel, for the purpose of causing maximum damage.
On the morning of the attack, shortly before detonating his bomb, Ullah posted a statement on Facebook referring to the then-President of the United States, stating: “Trump you failed to protect your nation.” Ullah also posted an ISIS slogan so that ISIS would know that he had carried out the attack on behalf of the foreign terrorist organization.
After Ullah was taken into custody following the attack, he waived his Miranda rights and spoke to law enforcement. Ullah was inspired by ISIS to carry out the Dec. 11 attack, and stated, among other things, “I did it for the Islamic State.” He also said that he chose a busy weekday morning for the attack in order to “terrorize as many people as possible.” One commuter who was inside the station when Ullah detonated the pipe bomb suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg, and two other victims partly lost their hearing as a result of the blast. Ullah’s attack caused the Port Authority subway station and bus terminal to shut down temporarily, disrupting the lives of commuters across the New York City area.
After the attack, law enforcement searched Ullah’s apartment pursuant to a search warrant. Agents recovered, among other things, Ullah’s passport, which contained the handwritten statement, “O AMERICA, DIE IN YOUR RAGE.” Less than two weeks before carrying out the attack, Ullah had watched and drawn inspiration from a particular ISIS propaganda video that proclaimed, “die in your rage, America,” with an image of the U.S. Capitol in the background.
Later in December 2017, while in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the charges in this case, Ullah began chanting “more is coming” at a correctional officer, and then told the officer: “You started this war, we will finish it. More is coming, you’ll see.”…
mgoldberg says
We do need to reconsider the death penalty. Here a person comes to the US and uses his beliefs to attempt to hoimicide as many people as he can with his bomb. His purchase is to kill and injure as man as his bomb can so damage. For that, he I think should be executed. The attempt to homicide a mass of innocents should in my estimation give a punishment of death. Of course, it is unlikely to happen but I do belief it is the right thing to do, as punishment,
Bruce 'Pilgrim' Stanton says
The problem is more and more people (jurors) are reluctant to vote to impose the death penalty even though the system has made the sentence less messy by giving happy drugs to execute the condemned.
gravenimage says
Agree, mgoldberg.
bobby tables says
WTF does “lawful permanent resident of Bangladesh” mean? Was the guy in the US ILLEGALLY??? If so, leading with “lawful” is actually misleading and it should say “ILLEGAL MUSLIM FROM BANGLADESH” instead.
Nikhil Manek says
I agree with you entirely. He should be executed. But i wonder, how many more people like him are there in this world??
gravenimage says
Far too many–that so many of them have been allowed into the west is insanity.
Beverly Seymour says
Why was the death penalty ever eliminated? This is an act of terrorism and that of a traitor to the country that took him in. Once found guilty with NO doubt he is guilty, these terrorists need to be shot at dawn within 30 days…or less….with no appeal. There needs to be no appeal when there is no doubt of guilt. We owe them nothing.
very old white guy says
Yep, going to feed clothe and house the guy for the rest of his life.
Bruce 'Pilgrim' Stanton says
In the long run the death penalty without possibility of parole is much cheaper than running a death penalty trial and trying to execute an individual.
Rob Porter says
mgoldberg – entirely agree – and almost entirely disagree with the following rubbish: ‘U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York said, “… Ullah’s actions resulted only in reaffirming the greatness of America by displaying the fairness and impartiality for which our justice system stands.” “Greatness of America”? “..fairness and impartiality”? And did this “greatness of America”, “fairness and impartiality” manifest itself during the Chauvin trial with it’s witness intimidation, threats of violence to jury members, and ‘cities will burn’ from lawless black racist criminals such as Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, BLM and other rogues, if the verdict did not turn out to their liking. That was a travesty, a mockery of justice.
White Americans are voluntarily marginalizing themselves when quietly listening to and surrendering to mindless nonsense and lawlessness from hate-filled black morons who never acknowledge the violence and lawlessness among many members of their communities.
mgoldberg says
Soory, that would be purpose…. not purchase
JohnTheRevelator says
Keep dropping the truth bombs, Robert-I honestly don’t know what it will take to get the West to wake up to the threat of Islam but the truth will certainly help to open many minds.
We need a shift in the western zeitgeist, currently we have the wrong set of beliefs/ideas animating our populace and our leadership.
A better test-tube where we can see even more clearly how wrong-headed our thinking is, is Israel. There we see a fierce battle of ideas between those who want to appease, submit, compromise, accommodate (the enemy) against those who want to utterly defeat them.
Why is it so hard for us to admit that Islam is at war with us and therefore we’re at war with them? Did other generations suffer from the same self-delusion and cowardice when they fought against Fascism or other enemies before them?
We need our own Francis Ferdinand or Reichstag pivotal moment in history so we can start genuinely fighting back for our civilization and way of life.
gravenimage says
We need our own Francis Ferdinand or Reichstag pivotal moment in history so we can start genuinely fighting back for our civilization and way of life.
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John, are you *really* saying that the start of WWI and the rise of the Nazi Party to full power were *good* things? Or are you trying to say something else here?
JohnTheRevelator says
Perhaps the Reichstag fire was a bad example but what I meant was that we need a spark that’s going to light the tinderbox and get this war against Islam started. How about the bombing of Pearl Harbour? I hear that incident pushed America to join in WW2.
And yes I’d much rather have WW3 than for us to be slowly outnumbered and outbred by Muslims who’ll then Islamify western nations.
That is exactly what Muslims are planning, a slow conquest because they know they are too weak to defeat us militarily. We still don’t recognize that they belong to an enemy ideology that seeks our destruction.
Note that they’re already winning-with gov’ts now bowing to Sharia law, so clearly they chose surrender over defending freedom. Eventually the only option left to save ourselves will be warfare.
gravenimage says
OK, John–I see what you mean now. Thanks.
Of course, 9/11 shoud have been this event–but many are stil in denial..
faraway says
@ gravenimage: yes exactly, if 9/11 couldn’t do it, what will it take? There was more appeasement after the attack especially when Obama was elected.
JohnTheRevelator says
@Graven,
No problem, glad we’re on the same page.
Yes I expected 9/11 to be that turning point, but our enemies managed to neutralize it, thanks to the imbecile-in-chief at the time, GW Bush, who kept spouting the ‘Islam is peace’ mantra while the towers were still smoldering.
Bush wasn’t alone, most Americans (esp. on the Left) still decided to give Muslims the benefit of the doubt and because of that we’ve had nearly 40,000 terrorists attacks and the deaths of around 250,000 people worldwide, thanks to Islamic terrorism.
‘Getting it wrong’ cost lives, mostly on our side of the ledger (non-Muslims). People continue to suffer and die needlessly because of political correctness and ignorance. So it will continue until there is an awakening.
Perhaps the conflict between Iran and Israel over their nuke program might be the catalyst we seek. There were many terrorist attacks since 9/11 that could’ve also united the world against Islam but sadly they were all missed opportunities. Looks like things have to get much worse until the real turning point arrives.
Check Burry says
The biggest appeasement would have been the mosk at ground zero, Im so glad that did not happen, or is it still in the pipeline?
Christopher Watson says
I would have thought 9/11 was that event. I remember seeing the 2nd aircraft hit the tower and thinking “somebody’s going to get it now”. Then, nothing. Oh, a few fine words but Bush2 was hardly a Roosevelt. He even arranged for an aircraft to surreptitiously take out a pile of Saudis during the aircraft shutdown. He should have bombed a few cities in SA then sent in the army to take over the SA oilfields. But no, he simply proved that if you are friends with Bush and the American government you can do what you like. If Bush had done that Russia and China would not have said a thing and it would have re-invigorated American power. Iraq was silly and pointless and Afghanistan was very expensive and pointless; the Russians couldn’t win there and neither could the British in the 19th century. Yes, this terrorist should face the death penalty. You don’t win a war by being nice; you win by killing the enemy.
gravenimage says
Agreed, faraway, Christopher, and John.
It sure was the turning point for me. I had been increasingly concerned about Islam, with its hijackings and constant attacks on Israel, but it was not until after 9/11 that I finally decided to educate myself about Islam and see what it really taught.
George Bush was not the only problem–but he was certainly influential. That he–and so many others in the almost twenty years since–have not taken the time to see if Islam is really a threat to the very people they are charged with protecting has been *terribly* harmful.
Rob says
The french could start by electing Marine le Pen at next year’s Presidentials,
gravenimage says
NYC: Muslim migrant gets life in prison for jihad bombing on subway in 2017
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*Good*. This is the toughest sentence you can currently get in New York. And at least here in the States life in prison does usually mean just that–and just a few years as in most of Europe.
Infidel says
That’s assuming that either Cuomo or Harris doesn’t choose to pardon him
bobby tables says
This is actually nuts. Guy should be deported. US citizens should NOT be feeding/clothing/housing him and paying for his healthcare for the rest of his life.
Check Burry says
Trouble with that is he can make multi attempts to get back in, ditch the beard, duff clothing, shave, haircut some halal spectacles etc. Use ole Joes border to heaven to get past the agents, or arrange for jo to meet him in the big caddi, lunch at the White (Notso much) House
Infidel says
He was the poster child for ending chain migration, which was a major goal of Trump, while Saifullah Saipov was the poster child for ending the visa lottery. Had these 2 laws been passed, some serious progress could have been made elsewhere on immigration reform. Hopefully, we still have a country left by 2024 so that we can reconsider passing Sen Tom Cotton’s & David Purdue’s RAISE Act
gravenimage says
+1
Fred van de Bunt says
Imagine how much people have a job because of him: lawyers, judges, prison personnel, writers, academics studying Islam….
This guy is worth so much to overpaid unproductive bureaucrats, productive people really have no idea of.
BlackSabbath says
Executioners want jobs too. Please give them a chance.
BlackSabbath says
Why all jihadis look like lycanthropes? By coincidence or by design?
Check Burry says
I must look that up, is it a slimy mollusc?
Christopher Watson says
Apparently its an ‘alien’ or a ‘ghostly spirit’. Not sure they fit. Perhaps more like an ape or certainly sub-human. Perhaps he could go for a swim with a few sharks. Sharks only have 2 aims in life: to kill and to eat.
BlackSabbath says
Check Burry,
Here is a picture of lycanthrope and resembles a jihadi.
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/008/050/518/large/anish-mohan-lycanthrope1.jpg?1510151139
gravenimage says
A lycanthrope is a werewolf. Seems apt.
faraway says
It’s the indoctrination, the contradictions, the threats and absurd promises of islam that make them so ugly. Notice how muslim apostates blossom once they cast off the yoke.
Jewcat says
Very good question, BS. I’ve often wondered the same thing.
Michael Copeland says
The “radical Islamic terrorist ideology” he researched and put into practice is Islam, Mohammed’s Islam.
Learning Curve needed by law enforcement and lawyers.
Alfredo says
Here we go again. Jihadist attacks unsuspecting people going about their daily lives in NYC. Haven’t we heard that countless times before?
So why are there still so many people still believing politicians peddling the shameless lie of Islam being the so called “religion of peace” and it’s ideology not having anything to do with what motivates these sicko killers inflicting carnage time and again? Indoctrination that’s what it is.
All this still happening while the media hacks are shoving down people’s throat the false narrative that the real threat to society is “White Supremacy.
Andrew Blackadder says
Robert, was that a typo when you wrote, “a lawful resident”, rather than “awful resident”..just take away the letter L from the word lawful and ya got awful… There I fixed it for you… no charge mate…
Any money and or property this scumbag has should be handed over to the Prison in which he is sentenced too and he can pay for his own upkeep and health care, charge him every time he visits a Dentist in prison, charge him for the clothing and food he eats, slip a pork meal in there now again and tell him later…
Rick Spencer says
Prison will give the MF a great opportunity for Islamic ‘dawa’ (proselyting), with Qur’an in hand and beard on face… and zebibah on forehead… and he will enjoy special halal food!
Emeka T Nwosu says
Exactly… These IGNORANT morons within the immigration agencies need to learn about the ENTIRE content of Islams “Holy (hand)Book of Oppression for Dictators”
Because as it is written in the Koran: Mohamed (the child rapist and goat humperdinck) instructed his followers in the followingmanner: “IF YOU CAN NOT INTERVENE MILITARILY, SEND IN YOUR WARRIORS DISGUISED AS REFUGEE’S, AND THEN SLAUGHTER THEM”.
OLD GUY says
The sad part of this is that the TAX payer has to support this terrorist for his life time. Guess what he will be doing in prison? Recruiting for Islamic terrorist. If we are going to keep these people in prison for long terms, we need to require them to work to pay for their imprisonment. We dam sure don’y need to provide them with life time free legal services, TV, Radio, Gym membership, and comfort. Prison should not be an upgrade in their standard of living.